William Gibson (yes, that William Gibson) penned a fascinating op-ed piece for the New York Times this week. Op-Ed Contributor – Google’s Earth – NYTimes.com This bit hooked me (h/t Geekosystem) If Google were sufficiently concerned about this, perhaps the company should issue children with free “training wheels” identities at birth, terminating at the age [...]
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This is a fascinating piece, albeit speculative, about Google’s recent foray into VoIP with GMail Voice. Gmail Voice Is About Future Search, Not Free Calls It seems very likely to be true, considering Google’s similar use of reCAPTCHA for digitizing print. If true, do you care? Should Google’s T&C for GMail Voice make their intentions [...]
Photo by koalazymonkey on Flickr used under Creative Commons Saw an interesting quote attributed to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday: But guess what? Nobody wants to make lists. A bit out of context, but Zuckerberg was expanding on the best way to share things with a network of people. He’s absolutely right about lists. They are simultaneously [...]
Harry J Foxwell, PhD: The 9th Fallacy of Distributed Computing "if you haven't already frightened yourself examining the myriad cloud security issues, google for "cloud computing" with "jurisdiction" for some additional reading material. You'll find that, as with real estate, location is anything but irrelevant." — Dr. Foxwell (tags: cloud) Harry J Foxwell, PhD: Is [...]
The table below compares various URL shorteners based on how much they value service performance and the privacy of their users. Here is the short version of the reading guide: a URL shorterner which gives a high priority to reliability, performance and privacy will use a 301 (“Moved Permanently”) response code, will not use cache [...]
Last week, you’ll recall I had a bit of an adventure upgrading my EVO to Android 2.2. The reason was to test drive a couple new features that Google announced last week, Chrome to Phone and Voice Actions. Chrome to Phone is a Chrome extension that can send data from your browser to your phone. [...]
I’ve been playing foursquare for about a year now, and one of my primary reasons has always been to visualize my movement through the world. Weeplaces provides the coolest foursquare checkin visualization I’ve seen so far. HOW TO: Visualize All Your Foursquare Check-ins Each city builds with traveling lines while time progresses across the bottom [...]
PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 is the most robust release in years with over 9,000 enhanced pages, 270 new features, 83 new Web services and 8 new solutions. Tune into this conversation with Jay Richey, Director, Product Marketing for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management Solutions to understand how this solution can improve the effectiveness of your [...]
If you want to start with developing free software on old technology, you can download the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition. Actually, Oracle 10g is more than 5 years old and it is the only version available as Express Edition, 11g has not been released at the time of the writing, and no patch has [...]